The Challenge of having shy students to speak up during classroom interaction
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2022
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Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi
Abstract
The present study is concerned with the challenge of having shy students speak up in an EFL classroom. It claims to investigate the teaching techniques used to help shy students engage
in class activities and the students' attitudes towards the strategies used or their effectiveness.
A mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) is used to conduct data analysis. It combines two
questionnaires addressed to a group of third-year students and their teachers of oral expression
sessions (COE). For the sake of gathering more reliable data about the discussed issue in this
study, we have opted for classroom observation relying on a checklist. The results were analyzed statistically using pie charts and tables for more clarification. It was concluded that
most of the students in the department of English at Larbi Ben M'hidi University are shy during
class discussions. Besides, teachers of COE give all the students the opportunity to speak freely,
and most of them use different strategies to integrate shy students' classroom interaction (CI).
As a conclusion, the use of appropriate techniques to integrate shy students into CI helps them
express their ideas and thoughts freely during class discussions.
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Classroom interaction, speaking skills, teaching techniques